“IFWG Publishing Australia has published two Australian volumes in the Cthulhu Deep Down Under series, with a third coming in 2019,” stated Gerry Huntman, Managing Director of IFWG, “but I had the privilege and opportunity to meet and befriend a lot of talented dark and weird fiction writers in New Zealand, and it made a lot of sense to publish an anthology of Mythos fiction from a land referenced so vividly by Lovecraft. This is the exciting culmination of that idea.”

New Zealand—Aotearoa—Land of the Long White Cloud: the island remnants of the sunken continent of Zealandia. With its boiling geysers, active volcanoes, earthquakes, deep water fjords and lush forests of fern, these are realms once home to forgotten creatures like the giant Moa bird Dinornis. But there is something else…

In this collection we find an Aotearoa with the proud history, myths, and legends of the Māori, and the impacts of the white settler’s later presence, and the blended society that encompasses both, but we see the shadow of other things.

Herein lies the cosmic horror of the Old Ones of the Cthulhu Mythos in an anthology featuring Lovecraftian tales from some of New Zealand’s finest speculative fiction writers.

H. P. Lovecraft pioneered a fusion of terror and science fiction themes, and is widely credited as having invented the sub-genre of ‘cosmic horror’. While America’s New England was the focus and setting for many of Lovecraft’s tales, the Southern Hemisphere held a fascination for him. Australia, New Zealand and Antarctica were featured locations in his Mythosian novellas.

In tribute to this, presented here is an assortment of the finest Australian dark fiction, bringing you a second volume of Lovecraftian stories of wonder and dread. Featured are new tales by ROBERT HOOD, LEE MURRAY, KIRSTYN McDERMOTT and SILVIA BROWN.

Cthulhu Deep Down Under Volume 2 takes us back below the equator, into the bizarre and headlong towards horror. From mist-shrouded peaks and canyons of Melanesian islands, through rainforests and scorching deserts of the island continent of Terra Australis, and across the Tasman Sea to the inhospitable hinterlands of New Zealand.

Cthulhu Deep Down Under Volume 2 (eds. Steve Proposch, Christopher Sequeira and Bryce Stevens), the second of our Australian Mythos anthology series, will be on sale on 1 August 2018, and is now available for preorder. Those who preorder will receive their copy on or just before the release date.

H. P. Lovecraft pioneered a fusion of terror and science fiction themes, and is widely credited as having invented the sub-genre of ‘cosmic horror’. While America’s New England was the focus and setting for many of Lovecraft’s tales, the Southern Hemisphere held a fascination for him. Australia, New Zealand and Antarctica were featured locations in his Mythosian novellas.

In tribute to this, presented here is an assortment of the finest Australian dark fiction, bringing you a second volume of Lovecraftian stories of wonder and dread. Featured are new tales by ROBERT HOOD, LEE MURRAY, KIRSTYN McDERMOTT and SILVIA BROWN.

Cthulhu Deep Down Under Volume 2 takes us back below the equator, into the bizarre and headlong towards horror. From mist-shrouded peaks and canyons of Melanesian islands, through rainforests and scorching deserts of the island continent of Terra Australis, and across the Tasman Sea to the inhospitable hinterlands of New Zealand.

We are pleased to reveal the full cover spread and table of contents of Cthulhu Deep Down Under Volume 2, which will be released worldwide 1st August 2018.

Cover art and design by the very talented Steve Santiago, and edited by Steve Proposch, Christopher Sequeira, and Bryce Stevens.

Introduction by Peter RawlikSleeping Dogs by Kirstyn McDermottSlither by Jason NahrungMelbourne Calling by Silvia BrownTime and Tide by Robert HoodDead End Town by Lee MurrayThe Pit by Bill CongreveThe Island in the Swamp by J ScherpenhuizenWhere the Madmen Meet by T.S.P. SweeneyThe Seamounts of Vaalua Tuva by David KurariaDepth Lurker by G.N. Braun

IFWG is very proud indeed of our Cthulhu Deep Down Under 3-volume series and look very much forward to Vol 2’s world release on 1st August 2018. We have just signed off the full cover spread, but at this early stage we would like to showcase the front cover – another beautiful job by artist and designer, Steve Santiago. In coming weeks we will reveal more, including the full TOC. Note our pleasure in having Mythos-guru Peter Rawlick penning this volume’s introduction. Editors Steve Proposch, Chris Sequeira and Bryce Stevens have, once again, done a wonderful job.

For those who haven’t had the pleasure of reading Volume 1, give yourself some time introducing yourself to the series by purchasing it. Preorder details for Volume 2 will be available soon.

And for those who are interested in our stand-alone New Zealand companion to this series, currently titled Cthulhu: Land of the Long White Cloud, it will be released in September 2018 – again, more details to follow.

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